Obscenity, 1966: The Marriage of Obscenity Per Se and Obscenity Per Quod

Obscenity: From Hicklin to Hicklin?

Obscenity, Pornography, and the First Amendment Theory

Sex and obscenity in medieval art.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(1) Contemporary evidence When researching early or ‘forbidden’ historical subjects it can be a considerable challenge finding primary sources that give a first-hand experience of contemporary events. In some periods, such as post-Roman, there is very little documented evidence, to the point where we only know of the existence of some kings purely fr...

Comparison of String Similarity Measures for Obscenity Filtering

In this paper we address the problem of filtering obscene lexis in Russian texts. We use string similarity measures to find words similar or identical to words from a stop list and establish both a test collection and a baseline for the task. Our experiments show that a novel string similarity measure based on the notion of an annotated suffix tree outperforms some of the other well known measu...

Inured to Obscenity but Sensitive to Pornography: Aren’t Our Definitions

With the increasing penetration of technological devices and access to Internet in the society, the exposure to obscene and pornographic material is increasing. There are various offline media like Television, Newspapers and Hoardings too that keep on serving with content eligible enough to be termed obscene and pornographic. The show business and commercial advertisements through the said medi...